Additional Extension of Comment Period on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of theGuide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Eighth Edition and Removal of Character Limit for Comments
The NIH has announced in Guide Notice NOT-OD-11-066 that the public comment period on the proposed adoption and implementation of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Eighth Edition has been extended an additional 30 days, closing May 24, 2011. Also, character limits on the comment form fields have been removed. If the character limit prevented you from submitting your entire comment, please re-submit before the deadline. This announcement will also be published as an update in the Federal Register.
All comments should be entered at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/2011guidecomments/add.htm.
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Extended Comment Period on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Eighth Edition
The NIH has issued a Guide Notice [NOT-OD-11-056] to inform interested parties that the comment period originally identified in a February 24, 2011 Federal Register Notice (PDF) has been extended for 30 days to maximize the opportunity for individuals and organizations to provide comments to NIH. The comment period will now close on April 24, 2011.
All comments should be entered at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/2011guidecomments/add.htm.
See also related NIH Guide Notices: NOT-OD-11-042 and NOT-OD-10-102.
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The National Institute's of Health has issued a Federal Register Notice requesting public comments on:
1) NIH’s adoption of the eighth edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and
2) NIH’s proposed implementation that would require that institutions perform at least one semiannual program and facility evaluation using the eighth edition by March 31, 2012.
NIH encourages comments to be entered at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/2011guidecomments/add.htm. Comments must be received on or before March 25, 2011. Comments will be made publicly available after March 25, 2011.
See the NIH Guide Notice: NOT-OD-11-042.
From the NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities (OBA): http://oba.od.nih.gov/oba/index.html
NIH Guidelines Revised to Exempt Most Experiments Involving the Breeding of Transgenic Rodents Housed Under BL1 Conditions - Under the revisions to the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules effective January 19, the breeding of transgenic rodents that may be housed under BL1 containment conditions is exempt from the NIH Guidelines with the exception of:
The above two types of experiments must still be registered with, and eventually approved by, an IBC under Section III-E of the NIH Guidelines.
A full description of these changes can be found in the January 19, 2011 Federal Register (76 FR 3150)
The Institute for Laboratory Animal Research has published the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare now expects compliance with the new "Guide". A PDF version of the Guide is available free for download on the OLAW Web site at http://olaw.nih.gov. To browse or purchase the Guide, go to http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12910.
This is also available under IACUC Policies, Procedures and Regulations in the Animal Care & Use page.
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